The Question: DO YOU LIKE GETTING OLDER??


 


As I've aged, I've become kinder to myself, and less

too many dear friends leave this world, too soon; be
aging. 
 
 Whose business is it, if I choose to read,
dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 5
lost love, I will. 
 
 I will walk the beach, in a swim
waves, with abandon, if I choose to, despite the pity
am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of li
important things. 
 
 Sure, over the years, my hea
lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even wh
hearts are what give us strength, and understanding
sterile, and will never know the joy of being imperfe
hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs b
have never laughed, and so many have died before
be positive. You care less about what other people t
right to be wrong. 
 
 So, to answer your question,
become. I am not going to live forever, but while I a
been, or worrying about what will be. And I shall ea

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Dylan's song revolves around the mishaps of a Mr. Jones, w
asks, the less the world makes sense to him. Critic Andy Gi
sneering, dressing-down of a hapless bourgeois intruder int

In March 1986, Dylan told his audience in Japan: "This is a

all the time. You just get tired of that every once in a while.
speaks for itself, right? So, every once in a while you got to
my response to something that happened over in England.
be people around still like that. So I still sing it. It's called 'Ba
There has been speculation whether Mr. Jones was based
in a Rolling Stone article, describing how he had attempted
his entourage later chanced on the hapless reporter in the h
down, Mr. Jones?"[10] When Bill Flanagan asked Dylan, in
replied: "There were a lot of Mister Joneses at that time. Ob
write that particular song. It was like, 'Oh man, here's the th
In the John Lennon-penned Beatles song "Yer Blues", Lenn
Dylan's Mr. Jones".
Dylan critic Mike Marqusee writes that "Ballad of a Thin Man
scathing take on "the media, its interest in and inability to co
anthem of an in-group, "disgusted by the old, excited by the
its central refrain "Something is happening here/ But you do
the burgeoning counterculture.[12] Dylan biographer Rober
Dylan's greatest archetypes", characterizing him as "a Philis
but not very smart about the things that count."[13]
Critic Andy Gill refers to "a fascinating, albeit slightly tenuou
this interpretation is based upon "the cumulative inference o
"hands you a bone", "contacts among the lumberjacks", "sw
back, thanks for the loan'", "one-eyed midget" and "give me
appeared on internet sites devoted to Dylan's work, and wri
Dylan’s intention with the song"; he adds that the song "con
understand."[6]